By CICS Services, do you mean Web Services or CICS itself?
CICS Listener support does alot of the communications heavy lifting for you. That is if what you're serving is available from CICS.
Can you really guarantee that WebSphere will be available in all sites as well? Not likely.
A server address space using TCP Sockets is probably the best approach (unless the CICS listener method will work for you). Unfortunately, I don't know any doc offhand that will point you in the right direction.
The CICS bookshelf should have info on how to use the CICS Listener. Brian Westerman wrote:
Hi all, I have decided that it would be kind of a cool idea to be able to access some of our software (especially the Spool Offload facility) from a secure internet connection, but I don't want to use CICS services or DB/2 because I can't gaurentee that they will be available at all of the sites that use my code. I think that my approach has to be through WebSphere, or I would need to write my own server address space that services TCP sockets, but I can't find documentation on the best approach for doing this. Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places. Does anyone know of any documentation on how writing this process would best be done? Thanks for your help. Brian
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